Fertility measures in Polish Black-and-White cattle. 2. Genetic parameters of interval measures

Journal of Animal and Feed Sciences

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 435-444

  Jagusiak, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE IN KRAKOW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dairy cattle; Fertility; Genetic parameters; Linear animal model

Indexed keywords

ANIMALIA; BOS TAURUS;

EID: 26444603966     PISSN: 12301388     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.22358/jafs/67037/2005     Document Type: Article

References (24)

1. Abdallah J.M., McDaniel B.T., 2000. Genetic parameters and trends of milk, fat, days open, and body weight after calving in North Carolina experimental herds. J. Dairy Sci. 83, 1364-1370
2. Bauman D.E., Currie W.B., 1980., Partitioning of nutrients during pregnancy and lactation: a review of mechanisms involving homeostatsis and homeorhesis. J. Dairy Sci. 63, 1514-1529
3. Berry D.P., Buckley F., Dillon P., Evans R.D., Rath M., Veerkamp R.F., 2003. Genetic relationships among body condition score, body weight, milk yield, and fertility in dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 86, 2193-2204
4. Fogh A., Roth A., Maagaard Pedersen O., Eriksson J.-Å., Juga J., Toivonen M., Ranberg I.M.A., Steine T., Sander Nielsen U., Pedersen Aamand G., 2003. Joint Nordic genetic evaluation for fertlity traits. Proceedings of the Interbull Congress. Rome (Italy). Interbull Bull. No. 31, 52-55.
5. Jagusiak W., 2005. Fertility measures in Polish Black-and-White cattle. 1. Genetic parameters of heifer fertility traits. J. Anim. Feed Sci. 14, 423-433
6. Jansen J., Van Der Werf J., De Boer W., 1987. Genetic relationships between fertility traits for dairy cows in different parities. Livest. Prod. Sci. 17, 337-349
7. Janson L., 1980., Studies on fertility in Swedish dairy cattle. II. Genetic Prameters.Acta Agr. Scand. 40, 427-436
8. Lucy M.C., 2001. Reproductive loss in high-producing dairy cattle: where will it end? J. Dairy Sci. 84, 1277-1293
9. Makuza S.M., McDaniel B.T., 1996. Effects of days dry, previous days open, and current days open on milk yields of cows in Zimbabwe and North Carolina. J. Dairy Sci. 79, 702-709
10. Marti C.F., Funk D.A., 1994. Relationship between production and days open at different levels of herd production. J. Dairy Sci. 77, 1682-1690
11. Meyer K., 1983. Maximum likelihood procedures for estimating genetic parameters for later lactations in dairy cattle. J. Dairy Sci. 66, 1988-1997
12. Meyer K., Thompson R., 1984. Bias in variance and covariance component estimators due to selection on a correlated trait. Z. Tierz. Züchtbiol. 101, 33-50
13. Miesenberger J., Sölkner J., Essl A., 1997. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Genetic Improvement of Functional Traits in Cattle; Fertility and Reproduction. Grub (Germany). Interbull Bull. No. 18, 78-84
14. Misztal I., Perez-Enciso M., 1993. Sparse matrix inversion for restricted maximum likelihood estimation of varince componenets by expectation- maximization. J. Dairy Sci. 76, 1479-1483
15. Olori V.E., Pool M.H., Calus M.P.L., Cromie A.R., Veerkamp R.F., 2003. Joint evaluation of survival and fertility in dairy cattle with a linear model. Proceedings of the Interbull Congress. Beltsville (USA). Interbull Bull. No. 30, 20-24
16. Pryce J.E., Coffey M.P., Brotherstone S.H.J., Woolliams A., 2002. Genetic relationships between calving interval and body condition score conditional on milk yield J. Dairy Sci. 85, 1590-1595
17. Pryce J.E., Coffey M.P., Simm G., 2001. The relationship between body condition score and reproductive performance. J. Dairy Sci. 84, 1508-1515
18. Royal M.D., Flint A.P.F., Woolliams J.A., 2002. Genetic and phenotypic relationships among endocrine and traditional fertility traits and production traits in holstein-friesian dairy cows. J. Dairy Sci. 85, 958-967
19. Schnyder U., Stricker C., 2002. Genetic evaluation for female fertility in Switzerland. Proceedings of the Interbull Congress. Interlaken (Switzerland). Interbull Bull. No. 29, 138-141
20. Van Doormaal B.J., Kistemaker G., Fatehi J., Miglior F., Jamrozik J., Schaeffer L.R., 2004. Genetic evaluation of female fertility in Canadian dairy breeds. Proceedings of the Interbull Congress. Sousse (Tunisia). Interbull Bull. No. 32, 86-89
21. Veerkamp R.F., Koenen E.P.C., De Jong G., 2001. Genetic correlations among body condition score, yield, and fertility in first-parity cows estimated by random regression models. J. Dairy Sci. 84, 2327-2335
22. Wall E., Brotherstone S., Woolliams J.A., Banos G., Coffey M.P., 2003. Genetic evaluation of fertility using direct and correlated traits. J. Dairy Sci. 86, 4093-4102
23. Weller J.I., Ezra E., 2004. Genetic analysis of the Israeli Holstein dairy cattle population for production and nonproduction traits with a multitrait animal model. J. Dairy Sci. 87, 1519-1527
24. Westell R.A., Quaas R.L., Van Vleck L.D., 1988. Genetic groups in animal model. J. Dairy Sci. 71, 1310-1320